Showing posts with label Lincoln. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln. Show all posts
Sunday, November 8, 2026

Madison, Trump, and the 2026 Midterm

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Many posts have discussed the Constitution .   William F. Connelly Jr. at The Richmond Times-Dispatch   [ links added ] Before the electi...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Lincoln the Politician

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 Allen Guelzo at AEI: Of course, we prefer to remember Lincoln the Statesman rather than Lincoln the Politician . Statecraft embodies nobil...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus

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 Amy Coney Barrett and Neal Kaytal at the Constitution Center: The Suspension Clause protects liberty by protecting the privilege of the wri...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Fake Quotations, Feb 2025

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Wonderful sentiment, and I couldn't agree with it more -- and I value Congressman Bacon, very much -- but ... a piece from the first wee...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

National Cemetery Administration

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Many   posts  have  discussed   the US  military . At WP, Casey Cep profiles Ronald E. Walters, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Memoria...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

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Many   posts  have discussed the  background  of  Thanksgiving  and  other holidays . Transcript for President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgivin...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Lincoln 1864

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In her statement Thursday night, Liz Cheney mentioned that, before 2020, presidents had always been willing to accept electoral defeat.  She...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

Christian Nation?

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Many posts  have  discussed  the  role  of  religion  in  American life .  David French at The Dispatch: In Lincoln’s second inaugural addre...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Lawlessness

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 Gary Schmitt at AEI: A recent Washington Post poll has some 34 percent of U.S. adults saying that “violent action ” against the government...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The People Rate the Presidents

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 Matthew Smith at YouGov: The respective excellence of US presidents is always being debated . Many academics have put together rankings ov...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Ranking Presidents, 2021

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 From C-SPAN As the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, C-SPAN is releasing the results of its fourth Historians Survey of Presi...